Odd question, but with all the strange names out their...I'm surprised that some person with a sick sense of humor hasn't given their kid a swear word as a name. Who knows, maybe it has happend...but I just haven't known anyone who had done it.
Posted by Misha McBride (Member # 6578) on :
I knew a girl who was named Treasure Cocaine.
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
I once knew a Mr. Register who named his son Cole Cash. No lie!
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
Couple months ago someone changed their first and last name to "They"
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
Wouldn't it be cool if someone changed their name to "You"? In responce, I don't think there are laws in the US that prohibit what names can be given.
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
I don't think so either.
My fiancee's last name is Yu. I have forbidden him to give any of our children an 'F' name. His response? "GOD, I'm not THAT cruel."
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
I think "me" would actually be funnier than "they"
Then someone who wanted to talk to you, would sound like they were talking to themselves.
"Hey, Me! Hows it going?
lol
just as a disclaimer, whenever I get married and have kids, I'll give my kids normal names...I can't stand people who give their kids strange names that will get them made fun of. I was just randomly curious if there had been a case where someone got a swear word as a name...or if it was even allowed
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
I know some people who named their daughter Justelle, after a little boy they met whose name was L, just L. They were introduced to the boy by a family friend who made them promise not to laugh when they heard his name. "Just L. L. That's it. Just L." They didn't laugh, though they thought his name was Justell at first. When they realized their mistake, they got to thinking that Justelle was a pretty name. And when they had their daughter...
My daughter barely escaped being named Rayne Forrest.
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
I'm pretty sure most parents care enough to "not go there".
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I have encountered the name pronounced "sha-theed"
Replace the a with i. replace the 2nd e with a.
Seriously. That was the person's first name!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I had a student once whose name was Nazi Germani. She was Iranian, and pronounced it nahZEE gherMANI, but I certainly did a double take when I saw it written before my first session of the class she was in.
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
A friend of mine is trying to convince his wife to let them give their son the middle name Danger, so he can go aorund the rest of his life saying Danger is his middle name.
Posted by J T Stryker (Member # 6300) on :
I can't think of any first name that'd go well with my last name (DeLong) that wouldn't be easily made fun of, i mean my first name is John....
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I need my wife to come into this thread to see that the weird names I always want to name our kids aren't that weird.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Like what porter?
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
I admit, I do like odd Galeic/Celtic names. I dunno, they're just so pretty...
Toretha wants to kidnap my firstborn son because Insanity_Plea wants to name him Artemis (yes, before you ask, from the Artemis Fowl books. hey, it could be Pippin or Merry or something LotR-ish).
IP doesn't have a middle name, but I need three names to yell when he makes me mad. So he has decided that his middle name is 'Confused', which makes it "Bernard Confused Yu".
Which he does on a regular basis.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Some names that she has shot down out of hand: Xerxes Red Wilhelmina
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
As a teacher we see some interesting ones.
Couple of my favorites...
Clamitia - mother saw it on her chart and thought it sounded pretty.
Twin boys named orangejello (o-rawn-jello) and lemonjello (la-mon-jello)... and yes, thats right, she named them after Bill Cosby's favorite treat.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
You actually had these students in your class beatnix?
Porter, I love the name Xerxes. I've come up with similar lists that Christine has shot down. I was on a Gwydion kick for some time. Not that I would *quite* name a kid that, but a part of me would really love to.
Maybe you can use those name generator sites I sent you to come up with your next list.
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
Nehemiah. I really like the name Nehemiah.
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
In my school, not in my class. A couple years ahead of the class I was teaching at the time. But I come from a pretty large poverty stricken community. A lot of my students have more education in the 8th grade than there parents at home do. Or at least it sure seems that way. I've definately ran into some strange birds over the last 4 years in this district.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Noemon, well, having red hair myself, trust me, Red is a bad idea. The first one is just weird and the last is. . . well, the only name I associate with that name is Wilhelmina Models, and seriously, who needs that kind of pressure from birth? (Well, the other image that comes to mind is similar to what comes to mind when I hear the name Bertha.)
[ November 17, 2004, 08:55 PM: Message edited by: Kayla ]
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
It's just that I've been hearing that orangejello and lemonjello pairing for years--it strikes me as more of an urban legend.
My father was a teacher for 36 years, and claims that he once taught at a school that had students named Syphilis and Gonorrea (pronounced suhFILLus and g'NORee-uh, names chosen from a medical book in a doctor's waiting room by a mother who didn't know what the words meant. If it makes you feel any better I've always been fairly sure that that one was an urban legend too.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah Kayla, I didn't mean that my list was the same as Porter's just that I came up with the same type of names. Xerxes is the only overlap that I'm aware of between our lists.
Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
I've seen kids come through my school with names like Rebel and Tequila, and others of that sort, and 90% of them are kids who are in trouble all the time. I think you have to be careful about saddling a kid with an 'unusual'name just for fun, it really can effect the way they think about themselves.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Noemon, I didn't mean to put your name there. Sorry. I just wrote it and when I was done, there was like, 10 posts between my post and the post I was replying to, so I went back and edited a name onto it. Unfortunately, I just saw the Xerxes and your name next to it and typed it. Oops.
mr_porteiro_head, my above post was for you. Sorry. Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I believe I have the worst name I've considered saddling my kids with. Obadiah. I love the name Obadiah, but I've decided after deep consideration that I'm just not that cruel.
I am going to name my first daughter Karen (silent e) though. It's a name that's been in my family for years from our Danish side and I think it's so pretty. I hate the American name Karen though (no offense, it's my aunt's name, I just don't want to name my children that).
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I also really like the female names Olga and Helga.
I also love the name Jedediah.
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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I had a meeting yesterday with a guy named "Mr. Corpus". No idea what his first name was. Wonder if he likes to play clue? I work with another guy whose last name is "Carnal"
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I love *saying* those names, but they aren't ones I'd be tempted to bestow on a kid. Artabanos is a good one. So is Nebuchadnezzer
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
I called a woman whose last name is Boob.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I taught a girl named Faequa. On several occasions I heard teachers who didn't know the correct pronunciation pronounce it "fukYOOah." Last year, I taught a kid whose last name was Bonar. My daughter's have a schoolmate named, I kid you not, "Indiana Jones."
I know Cor and I have seen other strange names, but these are the ones that come to mind right now.
Posted by Brian J. Hill (Member # 5346) on :
Link. 'Nuff said.
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
quote:My father was a teacher for 36 years, and claims that he once taught at a school that had students named Syphilis and Gonorrea (pronounced suhFILLus and g'NORee-uh, names chosen from a medical book in a doctor's waiting room by a mother who didn't know what the words meant. If it makes you feel any better I've always been fairly sure that that one was an urban legend too.
Wouldn't be surprised. My grandfather worked in a county hospital, and there were people who named their kids after STDs (though he had never heard of a swear word being used). Though, the hospital instituted a policy that if someone asked for suggestions, the doctors had to suggests names from the bible after a doctor suggested a woman name her kid placenta and she did. The woman thought it was a good name, but others thought it was in poor taste for a doctor to suggest it.
There were also sisters at my school named Rainy Dae and Sunny Dae (Dae was pronounced Day).
There was also a Story Book (my sister knew her)
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Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
I really hate when people give their children strange names like these. It may seem cute and funny at first, but these aren't video game characters, they're people. And they're going to have to live with these names for the rest of their lives. Too many parents with more humor than sense seem to overlook this fact.
My own rules (not that I have any children) are as follows: 1) No names that are humorous in and of themselves. 2) No names that are humorous when paired with the last name. Go ahead and name your daughter "Eileen", but NOT if your last name is "Dover"! 3) If possible, avoid initials that spell a word. 4) Don't name the child after yourself. That's just tacky, and arrogant. 5) Twins must never, ever have names that sound similar or are variants of the same name. No Stacy and Tracy, Phillip and Phyllis, or even Charles and Carol. That's just wrong. 6) If the name is not an established name in your culture, but comes from another culture, make sure the child has roots in that culture. For example, I love the Japanese girl's name "Michiko", but since I have not a drop of Japanese blood in my veins, I would never use that name for a daughter unless the woman I marry happens to be of Japanese descent. That way, the child would be part Japanese and could justifiably be given a Japanese name.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Of note:
The current trend to name girls "Caitlin" or some similar spelling ignores the fact that Caitlin is the galic spelling for Cathleen, which is the galic diminutive for Catharine. With an Irish accent, Caitlin is correctly pronouned: Cahtleen. (note: in order to spell it correctly, there should be an accent over the second i)
As far as giving kids weird names; I chose to give my daughter a weird middle name, so she could choose to use it if she wanted to, but otherwise it goes unnoticed. Her middle name is spelled Guenevere, which is pronounced (correctly, in Welsh) Jennifer.
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned Ima and Yura Hogg.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I guess I broke the last rule by naming my daughter Athena even though she has no Greek blood.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I have a friend whose name is Susan Knox. One day, she was complaining that she didn't have a middle name so I asked her if I could give her one. She agreed, and I christened her Susan Opportunity Knox.
I've heard an urban legend (my dad told my it was someone he knew, but I don't know) about a mother who didn't name her newborn right away, so they wrote "female" and then the last name. She thought Female (feh-MAHL-ee) was beautiful and kept it.
Another friend of mine was married a year ago and recently had a little girl named Paige. I thought it was adorable until I remembered that my friend's married name is Turner. I haven't had the heart yet to ask if it was intentional.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
My sister-in-law told us about the fuh-MALL-ee name urban legend.
Don't click on that if you're easily offended, or even at work, maybe. There are some pretty offensive words there, but all examples of urban legend weird baby names.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
In this town we have little girls afflicted with "Keisha Butts" and "Starzanne Stipes".
And of course, there's me.
Rain Smith
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Oh, and my dad's boss' daughter's name was Kandy Kane.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Oh, and we have a missionary (male) here whose first name is Cass...because his grandpa said he was a cute little cuss.
Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
My mother told me about a friend of hers whose last name was Rose. Her parents thought she was so beautiful as a new baby, just like a wild rose, so they called her Wild. Wild Rose. Kind of nice. Too bad she married a guy with the last name Bull. True story, I've seen a photograph of her and my mother together.
Posted by IdemosthenesI (Member # 862) on :
I personally was committed (for a while, anyway)to naming my daughter Enziquelvinisensee Evelvenin Taylor. I am still so committed, but have recently come to the conclusion that I will never, ever, ever find a woman to love me.
Anyway, The coolest name I have actually heard in real life is Isis. I really doubt that this girl will hold it against her parents. She will probably have a few years when she gets teased, but many more years when she (and others) will appreciate the beauty and originality of the name.
Not that I'm reccomending you name your child Anubis or anything, but there it is.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Then there's the baseball player Milton Bradley...
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Ok, so snopes verifies Ima Hogg, but Yura is an urban legend.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
I would love to have a child named Xerxes! Sadly, the depth of the name would be lost on most of the people he'd encounter throughout life.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
As they relentlessly made fun of him.
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
My sister went to school with twins named Viet and Nam Li.
I knew a Sunhi (pronounced Sunny) Moon.
My sister-in-law is Shannon Cannon...which I think is somewhat unfortunate.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
The strangest name is "Sunshine". I feel so left out.
Posted by RackhamsRazor (Member # 5254) on :
well-there is a kid at the middle school back in my hometown named Fidel Castro. Plus, I played soccer with a girl named Erin Zona (a certain state ring a bell). This last one I swear to you is a real name and is one of the worst names I have ever heard, but it was on the roster(opposing team against for my sisters basketball league)and they even had the announcers make a correction when to how it looks when the announcers tried to not make it sounds so bad. Her name: Shara Poupie....pronounced Share-a Poopie. Seriously...of all the names...shame on her parents Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
With my younger daughter, we had decided on a middle name (after my great aunt) long in advance. But we had a hard time choosing a first name. One option I have always liked for a girl is Ahuva. It means "beloved," it's pronounceable by non-Hebrew speakers, it's short yet melodic . . . I really like the name.
However, after careful consideration, we decided it might be best if we did NOT saddle an innocent child with the name Ahuva Fraida.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I once worked with a woman who had a friend named Bambi-Joe Schnitker. Now, there's nothing even vaguely obscene about that, there are no comical double meanings, and yet...that is easily one of the top five funniest names I have ever heard. It was probably 13 years ago that I worked the job with Bambi-Joe Schnitker's friend, and thinking of that name still makes me laugh.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
I had a friend in High School whose little brother was named Adam, but his dad taught the child to pronounce it a dam, so whenever this kid said his full name, he said in effect, "A damn Swank" I dunno, the more I think about it I think he just thought about teaching him that, either way its pretty funny.
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
"This is Snivelling Little Rat-Faced Git. And this is his wife Dreary Fat Boring Old Git."
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
There's a guy in my company named Dow Jones.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
I met a girl named Latrinia once.
And a girl in my high school was named La Quinta.
I've read about female characters in old books with the name Gay.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
The one that bothers me are twins whose names are almost identical. I went to school with twins named Omar and Lomar Brown. I also went to school with a pair of identical twin girls, born in December, named Holly and Christy. Why do people think twin names have to be cutesy?
Someone once suggested to me that it would have been cute if I had named Daniel and Abigail Daniel and Danielle. *gag*
I used to work at a university, and one of the nicest people that ever called our department was a woman named Tucker Slaughter. I just thought that was the coolest name!
Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :
I've got the fun of bothersome initials...B. J. S. ...yes...I always put my middle initial in, for obvious reasons...
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
Oh, I forgot about the twins I knew named Marcia and Marsha. Talk about confusing.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I made sure my kids didn't spell anything. They are NRW, ECW, DWW, ARW. I'm also ARW, and my husband is, yes...WWW
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
One of my goals in life is to marry a man whose last name begins with a "B" so that my initials would be KGB.
Seriously, though, the only contribution I have at this time is a kid from my hometown who was a few years younger than me--Rambo Schutz. No joke.
Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :
i've got a stand that i've made clear to my wife. (though she still doesn't agree) if we ever have twins, they will be named Hugh, Lewis, and Dwayne.
i'd also like to name a son Donald and a daughter Daisy, not that i want this many children mind you.
if you knew my last name.. you'd probably agree with my wife... >_>
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
If you have twins, they're getting THREE names???
Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :
i am so tempted to edit my post to say triplets... it's late >_<
Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :
if they happen to be female, i'll work out feminine forms of the names as necessary also.
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
quote: One of my goals in life is to marry a man whose last name begins with a "B" so that my initials would be KGB.
I can help with that. Want a marriage of contrivance?
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Hmmm. How old are you? Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
A well-worn 34.
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Well-worn? At 34? Poor guy.
Posted by newfoundlogic (Member # 3907) on :
Knew of a girl named Colossia Butts.
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
I really want to make a comment, but I have a rather unfortunate last name myself.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Mine is nice and boring. Actually, my entire name is. But after reading about some name afflictions, I should shut up and be happy about it.
*shutsup*
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Junebug.
Super-K.
Litebrite.
I'm the best dad EVER!
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
They are SO going to need therapy. Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Noemon, why is Bambi-Joe Schnitker so funny? I can't even think it, much less say it aloud, without laughing!
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
I went to high school with the Candace (Candi) and Bambi, the Clapp sisters. Cheerleaders.
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
quote:Clamitia - mother saw it on her chart and thought it sounded pretty.
I named my second son Arik Drew. My children were amoung the last born in a large extended family of children with A names.
I absolutely refused to name him Absalom or Ahab and there was already an Abraham. (yuck)
I was young, dumb and under a lot of pressure. I had the name Austin stolen right out from under me, literally, with my first son. I gave birth a month after my sister-in-law and had told everyone of my plans to name him Austin. She named her son Austin. Can you believe it?
I thought Arik Drew was nice considering the alternatives.
Poor kid! I thought I was giving him a strong, Norse Hero kind of name.
When your child asks you "mom, why did you name me that?", you know you messed up.
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
My mom's hippie friends, the Bushes, are Thorn, Briar, and Cactus. They all have traditional middle names so they can choose which they like. Personally, I always thought it fit the family nicely.
Posted by RackhamsRazor (Member # 5254) on :
my grandmother also new a lady whose name was Minnie...and what do you know...when she got married..it was to a guy whose last name was Mouse. She took his name too. Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
I took my mother's maiden name as part of my divorce decree. My maiden name, Helmbock, had already been corrupted into Hemlock far too many times.
And my name always gets remembered now. Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
My sister went to school with a girl whose first name was Pepsi. Really!
FG
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I don't think Isis is that weird of a name.
Also, what's wierd about the names Erin Zona and Ahuva Fraida?
quote: I was young, dumb and under a lot of pressure. I had the name Austin stolen right out from under me, literally, with my first son. I gave birth a month after my sister-in-law and had told everyone of my plans to name him Austin. She named her son Austin. Can you believe it?
I would have named my son Austin anyway. Big deal if he has a cousin with the same name!
There was a girl in my high school who got endlessly teased because of her last name Castendick.
Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
A professor at my University (in the education department) was named Junior High.
I have a good friend named Sommer Raine.
My friend's mother's married name is Penny Tenpenny.
My mom worked with a man whose family ran out of names and named their last five sons Felix I-V.
And, best of all, a well intentioned family I grew up with didn't even realize what they'd done till their son, Justin Sain, was in middle school.
[ November 18, 2004, 09:58 AM: Message edited by: Lucky4 ]
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
mph, try singing Ahuva Fraida . . .
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I plan on giving my kids some elvish names.
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
quote: Well-worn? At 34? Poor guy.
That's what it felt like at 2AM when I was posting at least.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I still don't get it, rivka.
Man, I feel like a thicky today.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Actually, my husband thought Xerxes was an excellent name for our second child. All I can say is it's a good thing she turned out to be a girl.
Of course, following the "J" rule in his family produced the name Jerxes...so everyone called her Jerxes before she was born. Hehehe.
quote: I think "me" would actually be funnier than "they"
I went to school with a Korean girl named Mi. No one thought it was funny, as far as I can remember.
Weirdest names I've actually encountered with people I really know:
Sierra Rain- Daughter of a friend David Eagle Bear Rising- Son of same friend...his legal last name is Rising. Luckily for his sister, she has her mom's last name. She'd sound pretty funny with a name like Sierra Rain Rising. Come to think of it, Sierra Rain Turner is pretty funny too.
People, things like the above are what happens when you have a white girl with like 1/16th Native American blood who really wants to be Native American. This is the same girl that scorned my husband for wearing a T-shirt with his tribe name on it.
Her: I can't stand posers like that. He's not even Indian. My cousin: Um, dude. He's half Sioux. Her: No he's not! He, like, Chinese or something!
But I digress. More weird names:
Fanny Schroyer- Last name pronounced like "Shoyer". It took a lot of guts as a child for me to ask if she got teased a lot in school, and did her report card say, "Show Your, Fanny".
"Dear," she said. "Shroyer is my married name."
I'll spare you all the list of weird names in my family. I've shared them before and they're probably in a thread around here somewhere. I'll give the best one, though:
"Tassy Wassy"
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Maybe it's not clear how Ahuva Fraida is pronounced . . . ? It's ah-HOO-vah FRAY-dah.
*sings* Ahuva Fraida, the big bad wolf . . . Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I got it at first, but didn't connect it to the Big Bad Wolf song until I used the linky....
Kwea
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
I like Xerxes and Isis.
Weirdest names I have personally seen:
Herwig Schlunk--it just trips off the tounge, like a train wreck.
Dick Stubb--owned an appliance store in OKC.
Korean kid, name pronounced "Dung"
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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
There was a family in Brazil with the last name of F U C K, pronounced Fook.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I'm still going to lobby for the name Xerxes again if our next child is a boy.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
My mother used to work for a bank and has talked about her favorite funny names she ran across: Olive Grace Brassiere and her husband, Harry, and the best - a very, very wealthy man by the name of Dewitt W. Weewee (the 3rd, no less!). She said she'd get some pretty strange looks from the other customers when she'd greet him "Hello, Mr. Weewee!"
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
I went to school with a guy who has the unfortunate name of Wayne Knopff. The p is silent. I remember one time he was called to the office over the PA system and pretty much the whole school was laughing.
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
I went to middle school with a kid named Shi Ning Sun
And Mayday-I don't WANT to kidnap your child, I'll just be force to if you name a boy that. I mean, honestly. Artemis, the name of the virgin goddess? On a boy?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Boys can be virgins too.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
The female virgin goddess Posted by Lost Ashes (Member # 6745) on :
At work, I keep a running list of the most unusual, funny and striking names that come in on our catalog request line.
So far, my favorite, because of it's pure uniqueness was:
Punci (Punky) Biffendorfer.
You know, there just can't be two of them out there, but she still chose to spell it Punci. An interesting gal, I'd be willing to bet.
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
know a family who named their first child Lea. They then proceeded to name their next daughter Perrin, after Lea & Perrin, the Worcestershire sauce manufacturer.
I also went to school with a girl called Summer Forecast who had a sister called Rayne.
Edit: Also, last year one day when I was very bored I read the birth announcements in the Times and found that some crazy person had named their daughter Magenta Poodle Pitman, which has to be up there with Moonunit.
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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I have known girls named Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter (admitedly, Winter was a last name).
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Bella, you knew a girl named Rayne? That's what we named our daughter. Rayne Danae, which my mother loves to say "Rayne Danae, Rain Tomorrow". Appropriate, really, given where we live.
Posted by kazwailah (Member # 6711) on :
A buddy of mine has the last name Keyes (He pronounces it keys) and he used to joke about naming his kids stuff like Don (Donkeys), Bruce (Brewskis) and my personal favorite; Waters (Water skis). Will he actually do it? I doubt it, but we had a good laugh about it.
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
I kinda thought the word godDESS covered the female bit....
[ November 18, 2004, 01:41 PM: Message edited by: Toretha ]
Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
I had a companion on my mission whose last name was Klunker. He was German. I knew a bishop here, a Polynesian guy, whose name was Radio Watch. When I worked at the Polynesian Cultural Center there was a Tongan guy with 23 (!) kids, all named after movie stars. The last name was Fa. So there was Cary Grant Fa, John Wayne Fa, and so on. Then there's Frank Zappa's kids, Moon Unit (girl) and Dweezil (boy).
Posted by NdRa (Member # 2295) on :
I attended elementry school with a Michael Jackson. In high school, I felt really sorry for Harry Balls. My mom's american name is Sunny and her maiden name is Sun. Her Korean clientele refer to her as Sunny-Sun.
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
I work with a 'Chinwe'--pronounced 'Chew-a'
My mother worked one year at a Title 1 (which in my town means 'black') school, and every single girl in her class had a 'sha' name: Shaniqua, Shaquana, et cetera. Of course, as a white family, we were so confused as to why this was popular among the black families, becuase we have yet to meet a white girl with the name "Shaquana". Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
Mom worked with a girl named Latrina.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Initials that spell words aren't so bad as long as it's not HOG or DUM or (in the case of a girl) LES, DYK, MAN, BOY... Et cetera. Or GAY for guys, I assume.
My initials are ALL. I like them.
No odd names that I can remember, though.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote: One of my goals in life is to marry a man whose last name begins with a "B" so that my initials would be KGB.
When I was about 7 I realized that some of our initials spelled things out. My mother is Mrs. K (that one was a real revelation for me LOL), my sister is ELK, but I was just JAK. So I decided long before I was interested in boys that I was going to marry someone whose last name started with an L so I could be a jackal.
Fast forward fourteen years. My 7 year old ideas were completely forgotten until my sister reminded me of it after the fact.... I marry a guy with the last initial L.... I am in fact a jackal (in more than one way LOL) but now I'm trying to get rid of that last letter.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
And who could forget that big name in Nascar racing, Dick Trickle?
Why not go with Richard?
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
My parents initials are WAT and VAT. My sister's is amusing in the age of computers: ALT. Mine is boring: JLT.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
This is a hilarious thread!!!
I am blessed with an unfortunate last name: Kiester. (Pronounced "KEES-ter") Yeah, when I started student teaching this year, my mentor said "So they should probably call you Miss Kiester, right?" and I answered "Oh. Do they have to?" There were several snickers, but they got used to it.
However, I am female and I plan on taking my husband's name...unless it's something even more terrible and I truly hope that fate agrees that I've had enough name teasing in my life. My brothers' wives took on the last name Kiester...and my oldest brother and his wife think of solid, decent names (some of which are unusual actually) for their kids.
My other brother....saints preserve us. You know that article that Brian posted a few pages back? You know how he said not to misspell names on purpose or make up names? Well, here we go. My two nephews are called Gabriel Moziah Kiester and Lazaro Esaias Kiester. They call the first one Moziah because my sister in law couldn't stand that people started shortening "Gabriel" to "Gabe". She had to have total control. So we call him Moziah. With a "z". We call the second one Esaias (ees-EYE-es). (his first name is pronounced la-ZAR-o...I don't even know if I'm spelling it right.) It's hard to call a sweet roly poly baby Esaias Kiester (which we know will eventually be turned into "I saw his Kiester.") I just call him "Babykins." I guess I'll have to cut that out before he's in high school, but heavens!! It's terrible!
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
quote:Dick Stubb--owned an appliance store in OKC.
There used to be some store run by a guy named "Dick Power" along by route home from school. Even better, he had giant letters on the side of his building that said:
"Dick Power: 'The Tool Man'"
Sadly, he doesn't have it there anymore, it just says "D.P." instead of Dick Power.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
I had a student named Kenosha who had a twin Kaneesha. I don't think their mom knew that Kenosha is a town in Wisconsin.
My mother in law is an identical twin (there's something sinister in that sentence alone). There names are Margaret and Marjorie.
Back in the video arcade heyday, my friends figured out what all their initials spelled: RED and JAB actually worked. Mine is GWA, which is almost as fun to say as "smock," (see Calvin and Hobbes) even though it doesn't mean anything.
My Grandmother's name was Fanny, but she called herself Teddy. My father called her "Fanny Goonie" (Ha! see if anyone gets THAT reference!), but he was the only one who could get away with that.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
smock smock smock smock smock smoch
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
There's a girl who goes to my school named Katya Hooker. No joke.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Teacher in high school named Anita Cox.
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
Dick Justice, head of UIUC Student Conflict Resolution department
"There is Justice in discipline. Dick Justice."
A local band took his name.
Posted by Magson (Member # 2300) on :
I have met Lily and Heidi Reichsiek. They are cousins. Lily's sister (and Heidi's cousin) is named Anna Marie. Reicksiek is prounounced "rex-ick."
I've met 2 women named Crystal Ball. One had the middle name Lynne, so she was "crystalline ball." Maiden names in both cases, so I'm assuming their parent figured they'd get married and change the names later. . . .
One of the end users that I support at work has last name "Shitole" -- it's pronounced "sheetle."
Another of the users I support has surname "Dikshit." Someone didn't like that spelling in the Org Chart and so there it shows up as "Dixit" but in her username and in the ticketing system it's spelled "the right way."
A place I worked had a customer named Deepa Ashit. We got a copy of her driver's license to verify that was really her name -- it was.
That same place also had a customer named Wanna Sugreekunt. He was actually a very nice man to talk to.
I have also met a couple of women named Damit -- pronounced "duh-MEET."
And for those who wonder "Why would anyone name their kids swear words -- consider this:
The name "Donna" comes from the Spanish/Italian (Latin?) "Dona" meaning "lady." Very nice, we think. But in Cambodia, the sounds "doe-nuh" means "hell." So a Cambodian meeting "Donna" might wonder why she's named for hell. And to us "Joy" is a very nice emotion, and an appropriate female name. In Cambodian, "joy" = "f*ck." And we have now exhausted my knowledge of the Cambodian language. . . .
So names we think are funny becuz they're similar to cusswords in our language, well -- that door swings both ways.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
I have seen more than one Latina mother name her daughter Placenta, and one named her son Obgyn, after the doctor that delivered him!
I also know a Lemonjello and orangejello, but they are pronounced like Or-ON-juh-lo and Li-MON-juh-lo.
I went to college with a Lovechild Hermantrout, and I know of a mother who named her child "Sh*thead" but pronounces it Shee Taad.
True Story.
Posted by enjeeo (Member # 2336) on :
My sister has three friends who are sisters. They are, in order of age, Cindy (Lee), Lindy (Lou) and Tina.
No, not Cynthia Lee or Linda Louise, etc. Their legal names are Cindy Lee and Lindy Lou, and they are not even twins. Lindy's name is apparently the name of the girl in the original lyrics of 'Peggy Sue'. I wonder if her dad thinks that makes it okay...)
When referring to the three of them, my dad calls them 'Cindy, Lindy and Tindy'.
These are suburban Australian kids and they sound like hillbillies.
[ November 18, 2004, 08:59 PM: Message edited by: enjeeo ]
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
My mother's maiden name is Apple. I have a cousin named Candy Apple, and a grandmother who we called Granny Apple.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Theca, I know a Latrina and a Gay. Gay is an older woman, obviously.
Tammy, your Arik story cracks me up, because I was engaged for awhile to a guy who's family had a weird naming tratition. His mom had given both him and his brother five letter names where all the letters were a part of their last name. His older brother had a son, and then another while we were dating, and they continued the "all letters must be part of the last name" bit but skipped the five letter requirement, which is good, because while they had eight letters to choose from, that would have been awfully limiting. Anyway, when we were talking about children I said flat out that I would not be continuing that tradition, and at first he was fine with it, said he thought it was a little weird, too. Later, it was like we had never had the conversation... :shakes head: I'm really glad now I never had to deal with it seriously. I thought it was one of the stupidest things I had ever heard of.
[ November 18, 2004, 11:26 PM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I don't know which is worse -- Gay or Gaylord.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
There's a town in Minnesota named Gaylord. I have a gigantic hooded sweatshirt with the town name across the back.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Anne Kate--I can't quite put my finger on it, but isn't it funny? Someday I'll use it in a book, I think.
When I was doing IT work for the Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment, I was passing through the Dept. of Vital Statistics and overheard a couple of the employees laughing about some guy who had just come in to pick up his birth certificate. His last name, I'm afraid, was "Buttream" .
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I had a debate teacher whose name was Merry Gay.
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
I had a co-worker with the name of Mike Klett. His parents were from Germany.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Alcon, there's also a kid that goes to your school named Lordmeister, I forget his last name but it's funny too (freshman, mom had him at jcms).
On Katya, the principal was once announcing some sort of award and said Gotcha Hooker.
Posted by Magson (Member # 2300) on :
This talk of the names "Gay and "Gaylord" remind me that I know 2 women named Gaydra. Mother and daughter, actually. Mom goes by "Gaydra" to "everyone," but her family actually calls her "Mildred" or "Gramma Mil." The daughter goes by her initials "GJ."
Posted by kazwailah (Member # 6711) on :
My Grandmother's name was Gladys, everyone called her happy bottom.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Okay, honestly, these are names from my wife's family.
Dick Sweat.
Fanny Smelly.
No lie.
Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
Lie.
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
I had a great-aunt and great-uncle who went by the names "Girl" and "Boy" their whole lives. To us, they were Aunt Girlie and Uncle Boy.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My mom worked with a Dr. Richard Dick. His nickname was Dick (Dicky as a child). His specialty: urology.
So, Dick Dick the urologist.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I really am laughing out loud. I'm not kidding!!! Posted by Lost Ashes (Member # 6745) on :
A kid I grew up with had the name Fambrough, which had been passed down from his dad (who went by the name Fam) and his grandfather. Luckily, this fellow went with his middle name.
It's tough to live up to Fambrough.
Posted by OlavMah (Member # 756) on :
Magson, I know of Anna Reicksiek. Her cousin is in our ward (there can be only one in the SW US). I know a bunch of people with the last name Bair. Some with a responsible attitude about naming their kids and some... not so much. Oh yeah, and my husband is related to them. We've already had the "they're kids, not pets" talk.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
OlavMah, you got married? Awesome! And good to see you back! Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
One of my dad's employees had the last name of Ausel, and her maiden name was Butz.
So she went from being a Butz to an Ausel.
Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
Now I don't feel so bad about naming my son "Christopher Robin". Heh.
There is a cadet here at USMA named Celeste Pizza. Heh. When we got a fax from her mother to order her printer, we thought it was a joke. Nope. There's also a cadet here with the last name of "Arrowsmith", which is totally cool.
I know a Sgt. whose first and middle name are "Merry Christmas". Posted by foundling (Member # 6348) on :
It'd be cool if your last name was Xerxes, and you named your kid Art, and gave him a middle name starting with E. Art E. Xerxes. Hehe...
damn... that was so two pages ago
[ November 20, 2004, 08:18 PM: Message edited by: foundling ]
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
There was a professor at my college with the last name Woodcock. My wife knows a Christopher Robin and her parents know some people who had a whole bunch of girls followed by a boy who they named Boy. They had another boy a while later and one of them exclaimed "We did it again" and they named him Did.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
I have worked with a guy with the last name Gay. Thankfully his first name was Brad. Although, since in the Navy you use the last name when addressing someone....
My name thankfully is fairly boring, if just long. Stanislawski...not a whole lot beyond mispronouncing and mis-spelling. However, I prefer just Stan....albeit "the Man" gets tacked on to it a lot. Mostly because it rhymes, sometimes because I did something important.
I work with a guy now who has the last name of Potter, first name Jason. (Thank you no Harry Potter reference.) However, we had a female that had a very different name from what we called her (ok, it was when she wasn't around). We did call her Harry Potter, but only because she looked like him. Too bad she didn't have his attitude....might've made it easier to get along with her. Don't know how her husband put up with her. It was easy to see why he liked going out to sea though.
Other last names of people I know.... Gaytan, Blackwood, Cox, Eatmon (who was once called Eatme by a female officer for a while), Blackman (he's white), and Blackenship.
Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
I remembered what I was trying to post about the first time I posted on this thread! (cold medication--blast it!)
My sister-in-law's sister (my sister-in-law once removed?) had a baby and named him Van (a family name on her husband's side, apparently). The new baby's middle name is Walter (after maternal grandfather). They plan on (PLAN ON) calling him "VW". That's bad enough. Their last name begins with the letter "D". So his first and last intitials are, yes, "VD". And of course, there is an ailment common amongst German Shepherds called "VWD", but not many people will get that. Heh.
Posted by Uhleeuh (Member # 6803) on :
One of my brother's cellmates had a last name of Sexy and as my brother describes him, he was anything but. At first my brother thought the other inmates were just teasing this guy the way you might tease a tall person by calling them Little [insert appropriate name].
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Oh! I just remembered Theodore Bayer. And we had a Yogi Baehr at work, but I think his real name was Gerald or something.
My maiden name is Bush. I was always glad I wasn't named after Aunt Rose, even though I really like that name. I like Thorn and Briar. Gorse, Creosote, Holly, Mulberry, Groundsel, Hydrangea, Evergreen, Lilac, Spiraea, and Snowball.
Rain
Posted by School4ever (Member # 5575) on :
I broke my leg when I was 17, the Drs. who worked on me were Dr. Dick, Dr. Ball, and Dr. Tushman. And Dr. Ubelhart, but his name did not fit in with the rest.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
My last name is Ard and my brother used to say he would name his kids Liz, Buzz, and Barny.
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
I forgot about Cherry Pie. My brother went to high school with her, and her dad was my family doctor. I swear her name was really Cherry Pie.
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
There's a law firm on the south side of Indianapolis called "Roach, Lynch, and Belch." It's like they purposely picked the partners with the worst last names.
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